Quotes by Toni Cade Bambara

“Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.”

“Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.”

“Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion.”

“Not all speed is movement.”

“The most effective way to do it is to do it.”

“The dream is real my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality.”

“Our lives preserved. How it was and how it will be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.”

“Reappraise the past reevaluate where we've been clarify where we are and predict or anticipate where we are headed.”

“The most effective way to do it is to do it.”

“The dream is real my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality.”

“Our lives preserved. How it was and how it will be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.”

“Reappraise the past reevaluate where we've been clarify where we are and predict or anticipate where we are headed.”

“It was Grandma Dorothy who taught me critical theory, who steeped me in the tradition of Afrocentric aesthetic regulations, who trained me to understand that a story should be informed by the emanc...”

“But in the storytelling arenas, from kitchen tales to outdoor university anecdotes, women's morality was much more expansive, interesting, it took on the heroic-Harriet T. and Ida B. and the women ...”

“Grandma Dorothy, in an effort to encourage our minds to leap, would tell us, Of course we know how to walk on the water, of course we know how to fly; fear of sinking, though, sometimes keeps us fr...”

“Winter 1979. We are now in the fourth year of the last quarter of the twentieth century. And the questions that face the millions of us on the earth are-in whose name will the twenty-first century ...”

“Writing is one of the ways I participate in struggle-one of the ways I help to keep vibrant and resilient that vision that has kept the Family going on. Through writing I attempt to celebrate the t...”

“I'm interested in usable truths. Which means rising above my training, thinking better than I've been taught, developing a listening habit, making the self available to intelligence, engaging in de...”

“When I look back on the body of book reviews I've produced in the past fifteen years, for all their socioideolitero brilliant somethinorother, the underlying standard always seemed to be-Does this ...”

“The greatest challenge in writing, then, in the earlier stages was to strike a balance between candor, honesty, integrity, and truth-terms that are fairly synonomous for crossword puzzlers and thes...”